Analysis of your professional journal article will prepare you to read similar texts in your major and to write your own professional genre for our class.
PURPOSE
READ THIS FIRST: Most academic research writing is problem-based. To identify the purpose of your article, look for a statement of the problem for study. Usually you’ll find it in the first few paragraphs, often in a sentence that begins with “But,” or “However” and creates a contrast with previous research (for example, “Previous research has…. However, it has not yet explored….”).
1a. Please write at least one sentence from your article
that sums up its purpose. “In the hip-hop culture individuals “size each other up’ to determine who is the hardest or realist”
1b. In your own words, what is that purpose? -The purpose of this article is to inform the audience about a specific culture (hip-hop) and their morals.
AUDIENCE
READ THIS FIRST: Academic research writing has different audiences, depending on your major. Usually that audience is identified in the first few paragraphs (for example, “Education researchers have long been interested in….”) but sometimes the audience is implicit (not stated directly).
2a. Please write at least one sentence from your article that indicates its audience.
“These moral also seem to extend out to the hip-hop community whether you’re an artist or not” 2b. In your own words, who is the audience? - Anyone who participates or listens to hip-hop music. GENRE
READ THIS FIRST: In different majors, there are important differences in what counts as evidence, how a text is organized, and what kinds of language it uses. To find these differences, you will have to skim through the whole of your article.
3a. Evidence – What counts as evidence in this article?
How do you know?
(For example, are there statistics about the effects of a drug? Transcripts of classroom interactions? Quotes from interviews?) I believe that the interviews that were done was a great ethos builder. Reason being it took actual people from the culture on both sides of the spectrum therefor getting the culture as a whole actual words and thoughts.
There were multiple interviews done to hip-hop artist as well some of these artist’s fans. 3b. Organization – Are there sections/headings in this article? If so, list them below. If not, read the first sentence of each paragraph and try to identify shifts from one section to another.
(For example, there might be a section that gives background about prior research, and another that describes results or findings of this article). There were several different headings entitled: About, Bio, Genre, Other Media, Sources, and Construction. 3c. Style – Are there specialized vocabulary words or sentence structures in this article that are particular to your major? Give an example. - They use words such as social penetration theory, small group communication, and the onion layer theory.
P.A.G.E. Analysis of Professional Journal Article
Analysis of your professional journal article will prepare you to read similar texts in your major and to write your own professional genre for our class.
PURPOSE
that sums up its purpose.
“In the hip-hop culture individuals “size each other up’ to determine who is the hardest or realist”
1b. In your own words, what is that purpose?
-The purpose of this article is to inform the audience about a specific culture (hip-hop) and their morals.
AUDIENCE
“These moral also seem to extend out to the hip-hop community whether you’re an artist or not”
2b. In your own words, who is the audience?
- Anyone who participates or listens to hip-hop music.
GENRE
How do you know?
(For example, are there statistics about the effects of a drug? Transcripts of classroom interactions? Quotes from
interviews?)
I believe that the interviews that were done was a great ethos builder. Reason being it took actual people from the culture on both sides of the spectrum therefor getting the culture as a whole actual words and thoughts.
There were multiple interviews done to hip-hop artist as well some of these artist’s fans.
3b. Organization – Are there sections/headings in this article? If so, list them below. If not, read the first sentence of each paragraph and try to identify shifts from one section to another.
(For example, there might be a section that gives background about prior research, and another that describes results or findings of this article).
There were several different headings entitled: About, Bio, Genre, Other Media, Sources, and Construction.
3c. Style – Are there specialized vocabulary words or sentence structures in this article that are particular to your major? Give an example.
- They use words such as social penetration theory, small group communication, and the onion layer theory.